Millions cheered this week when Fred Phelps Sr. and his Westboro Baptist Church were slapped with a multimillion-dollar damage award for protesting at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq.
Among those crowing: Fred Phelps himself.
“Thank God for the $10.9 Million Verdict!” the Phelps gang announced in a news release on Wednesday.
The publicity surrounding the Maryland lawsuit brought by the Marine’s family, Phelps said, “will elevate me to something important.”
As for the damage award, which far surpasses the net worth of the defendants?
“It’s going to be reversed in five minutes,” Phelps prophesied.
It’s not a happy thought, but he could be right on both points.
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